[squid-users] Issue when connecting to apple APN

[Antony Stone]

On Monday 24 October 2016 at 11:27:17, Alaa Hassan Barqawi wrote:

> Dears,
> I am facing issue in connecting with apple APN gateway.push.apple.com :
> 2195 The name cannot be resolved although I am using google DNS servers
> and it throws an error Unable to determine IP address from host name
> gateway.push.apple.com The DNS server returned:
> No DNS records

There is no A (or AAAA) record, but it is a CNAME:

$ dig gateway.push.apple.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> gateway.push.apple.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4722
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 9, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gateway.push.apple.com.                IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gateway.push.apple.com. 193     IN      CNAME   gateway.push-
apple.com.akadns.net.
gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.129.25
gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.134.21
gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.135.152
gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.135.149
gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.134.150
gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.136.184
gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.137.150
gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.142.26

;; Query time: 19 msec
;; SERVER: 80.68.80.24#53(80.68.80.24)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 24 10:35:09 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 215

Are you using your own DNS server, or someone else's?


Antony.

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